US Presidents on Religion

"The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." ~ John Adams

"I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature. Religions are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my religion." ~ Abraham Lincoln

"A just government has no need for the clergy or the church. Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." ~ James Madison

"I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion." ~ James Buchanan

"I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe." ~ William Howard Taft

"To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which is one of the foundations of American life." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

"Of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised." ~ Woodrow Wilson

"When I hear them praying extra loud, I always go out and check the lock on the smokehouse." ~ Harry Truman

"I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice." ~ John F. Kennedy

"I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." ~ George H. W. Bush

"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers." ~ Barack Obama